Time was when cycling was viewed as a heroic effort and not the efforts of Irvinites trying to burn off a few pounds on weekends, and Earl G. Glenn was the master of them all in OC. In 1897, he set a speed record that stood until at least the early 1920s: 12 1/2 miles in 30:31 on a dirt course–that's a speed demon!

That's not all Glenn did, of course. He was SanTana's postman for many years,and also served on the SanTana Fire Department as a volunteer, holding the record for service for quite some time as well.

And, of course, Glenn was Klan.

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The weird thing about Glenn's kluckery was that he married the daughter of what I can only assume is either a Latino Arab, or a Lebanase Latino–what else can we make of someone with the name Carlos Mansur (the only Mansur I ever knew was a beautiful Argentine woman whose maternal side were Lebanese Christians who settled in the pampas)? Of course, as any Chicano Studies major can tell you, marrying a minority doesn't make you somehow more enlightened on racial matters–if anything, it just emboldens you to steal from those baboso brownies. And that was Glenn–fun!